Combined clock and time-stamp



S. AGRANAT COMBINED CLOCKAND TIME STAMP.

APPLICATION FI LED APR. 10, I919.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON AGRAN AT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 JOSEPH LEVY, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED CLOCK AND TIME-STAMP.

Application filed April 10,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON AGRANAT, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Boston, Massachusetts, whose post-office address is 175Washington street, Boston, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Combined Clocks and Timebtamps, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

My present invention is an improvement on my prior automatic time stampapparatus, Serial No. 274,292, filed January 31, 1919, and the object ofthe invention is to improve and perfect and simplify clock and timestamps of this type.

In my said prior application, I have explained the desirability ofutilizing a separate timing'clement and a time stamping element which wearrange in proximity to each other and with a flexible uniting elementjoining the central arbor of the clock with movable means in thestamping element to reproduce the time of the clock in the stamp.

In my present application, I have greatly simplified and improved thiscombination, using a separate timing element or clock but positionedinimmediate proximity with the stamping device so as to give theappearance, compactness, convenience, and effect of a clock and-timestamp built together; but with all the advantages of a separate timingelement and separate stamping element. Among these advantages are,briefly, that an inexpensive clock which may be connected with thestamping apparatus, remote from the factory,saving shipping of bothtiming and stamping devices, enabling different types of clocks to beutilized, eliminating the jars, wear, and tear on the clock incident tothe stamping operation, and greatly simplifying as well as economizingthe cost of construction and marketing of time stamping apparatus.

A difliculty in endeavoring to unite the clock and stamping apparatus soas to appear substantially as a single unitary device has been in thefact that nearly all feasible clocks must be wound from the back and itwas therefore impossible to position a clock Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

1919'. Serial no. 289,058.

this difliculty and enabling an inexpensive usual type of kitchen clockto be employed advantageously and to provide means uniting it closelywith the stamping apparatus and also permitting and facilitating thewinding of the clock.

Referring to the drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of theinvention- Figure 1 is a plan view of the clock and time stamping devicearranged in operative position; and

Fig. 2 is a side view.

Referring to my improved time stamping apparatus as herein shown in thedrawings, 1 provide a plate 1 on which the stamping apparatus,designated generally at 3, and the clock 2 are separately supported.This is entirely optional, as the stamping apparatus may be rested orstood upon a table, desk, or other support and the clock stood adjacentthereto. A pair of clock supporting elements 4: and 5 holding the clock.2 in vertical position adjacent the stamping apparatus 3. These supports4 and 5 may be of any suitable or desired height to hold the clock 2with the central arbor 6 to which is secured a socket member 7, inappropriate position, to be joined with a cooperating socket 8 on theshaft 9 which extends from the stamping apparatus at right angles, aswill be explained.

l/Vith the clock thus positioned, it appears substantially as a part ofthe entire device,

being applied at the front of the apparatus and therefore can be used asan efiicient and compact ornament. In fact, the arrangement of mypresent time stamping apparatus gives the appearance of the moreexpensive type of devices wherein the clock is built into the timestamping device, but entirely without the disadvantages of suchconstructions.

The difiiculty of having such an arrangement of clock and stampingdevices is overcome by my present invention enabling the clock to bewound or re-wound when thus positioned. It was impractical to remove theclock each time from the apparatus and yet as all these types ofeconomical clockswhich it was desiredfto use-are constructed to bere-wound from the back and asit was not feasible to provide such a clockwith a winding mechanism at the-top of the clock the present arrangementwas formerly considered impractical. However, I have proat the rear orback of the stam ing apparatus on the same side with the ri bon windingreel 15, it is entirel out of the way and unobjectionable. Thisarrangement for the key 10 furthermore is of advantage in holding theclock 2 in proper alinement and position relatively with the stampingapparatus 3, particularly when the clock and stamping apparatus areseparately restin upon a table, desk, or the like, instead of bot beingsecured to the common supportin plate 1. The short shaft and directmeans 0 uniting the clock and stamping apparatus is also desirable, moreeconomical, requiring less power to operate and therefore insuringgreater accuracy in the running of the clock than in formerconstructions. The clock being still separated from the time stamp isfree of the injury and damage through the jars incident to the hammeringof the time stamp through depression of the lever 40 and head 13.

My present invention is further described and claimed in the form of aclaim as follows:

a An automatic time stamping apparatus of the kind described, comprisinga support, a time stamping apparatus carried by the support, andconstituting, with the sup ort, a unitary structure, in combination witha commercial unitary time keeping element also mounted on the support atone side of and in close proximity to, the time stamping apparatus,means on the time stamping apparatus to hold, aline, and transmit powerfrom one relatively to the other and comprising .a power transmittingshaft extending from the time keeping element to the stamping apparatus,and a winding key extending through the stamping apparatus, whereby theordinary time keeping clock may be placed on one side of the stampingapparatus and wound from the other side of such stamping apparatus.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SIMON AGRANAT. Witnesses 'Josnrn Lnvr, Janna R. Honnnn.

